- After an apartment in Florida collapsed, at least 11 people were confirmed dead and 150 people were missing.
- According to the Washington Post, more than US$1 million (14.3 million rand) has been raised to help victims and their families.
- These funds will be used to pay for expenses that the insurance will not pay and to help cover the expenses.
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Raised more than $1 million (14.3 million rand) for the families of victims of building collapse in Florida, Washington post Report.
As of Monday night, $1,195,164.04 has been raised. fund, Which will be managed by Shure of the Bar Harbor Synagogue.
The Miami Heat and other local organizations including the Global Empowerment Mission have also established funds. Businessmen including Puerto Rican billionaire Orlando Bravo and the co-founder of private equity firm Thoma Bravo donated US$250,000 (R3.6 million), World Fire Protection Association Report.
Bravo said: “If you have something very personal to you, it will affect your family, friends, and the community. If you don’t do something, no one will do anything.”
Partial collapse of the Champlain Tower South in Surfside, Florida Just after 01:00 on Thursday. Search and rescue personnel are still working in the rubble, at least 11 people have been confirmed dead and 150 people are unaccounted for.
According to the “Washington Post” report, the funds raised will be used for medical needs insurance, excluding the injured and the families of the deceased.
Michael Capone, founder Global Empowerment MissionThe Miami-based non-profit organization told the Washington Post that his organization usually assists in international disasters, but is now helping those affected by Surfside obtain necessary assistance.
The Post reported that Capponi’s organization has partnered with reality TV star Bethenny Frankel to initiate BStrong and has so far given away $1,500 (R21,400) Visa gift cards to 17 families.
Capone told the Post, “$1,500 is a good gesture, but in fact, they have lost everything.”
He said that the suffering of the Surfside family was something he had never seen before. Two residents told him that they had paid off their 20-year mortgage in the week before the explosion.
Capone said: “I have been working all my life, and now it is broken, turned into rock, turned into fragments, and there is nothing.”
Other staff who provided relief to these families also said that the situation was terrible.
Shekar Reddy of the Gummakonda Foundation in Hallandale, Fla., told the Washington Post that his organization is working hard to help the displaced and assist the international family members of the missing who went to the location. The team is helping them book accommodation.
The people who are still missing come from more than More than a dozen countries Authorities have collected DNA samples from family members to help identify them.
“Some of these families, they come from abroad [and] I don’t speak English and I don’t know how to deal with reservations and other issues,” said Yeny Paola Rico, who co-founded the Gumakonda Foundation with Reddy. “Now, it’s a bit crazy. “